Rita Lynch has been a part of the UK’s underground music scene for 30 years. Her adopted hometown of Bristol is a key part of her incredible story and development through punk rock, squatting, hard drinking, experimentation, love and loss and some beautiful music. She has made 6 albums in a career where the key motifs are about funnelling emotion and experiences into music and developing her craft so that it becomes a soundtrack to people’s lives.
The last 2 albums, her guitar has been the powerhouse that drives the songs from start to finish. Her sharp telecaster is simple and primal, her vocals full of fire. The rhythm section of John Langley and Mike Youe push forwards with boundless energy. Continuing the punchiness of 2011’s ‘Crack On’, Lynch’s 2014 album ‘Anti Social’ reveals both wisdom and controlled aggression in sometimes brutal honesty. Each track gives the feeling that writing is still a necessary process for Rita that she simply must pick up a guitar and pour her heart into her songs for fear of bursting.
‘Story To Tell’ Anthology 1988 – 2011 released by Bristol Archive Records and distributed nationally by Shellshock in April 2016, have songs like ‘Beautiful Eyes’, ‘Call me your Girlfriend’ and ‘Rolla Coaster’.
Lynch is wound with the hostility of a typically teen generation. A label for social and political irritation, as much as a rebellious spirit. Lynch’s lyrics, filled with her personal honesty and wisdom born from experience, continues her dissection of life. Questioning age, politics, religion and relationships with a ferociousness that is more defiant than aggressive:. Rita Lynch has survived. Rita Lynch has lived.
BRUTAL WOUND: ‘BRUTAL WOUNDS - Tim Kirby (Diatribe/The Loveless/The Cabal, Andy Curry (Hidden Bloom) and Jim Johnston (Monk & Canatella/Hexit) have come together to set alight the funeral pyre of 80’s and 90’s Indie. Savage baselines, crashing guitar and drums like thunder overlaid with the resolute hostile angst of Tim Kirby’s vocals recall the halcyon days of the 4 minute warning, the Miners strike and the poll tax riots. BRUTAL WOUNDS are here to testify that nothing much has changed.’
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TS IDIOT and the HIDEOUS TREND: T.S. IDIOT & THE HIDEOUS TREND: Punk/post punk quartet, based around the poetry of T.S. IDIOT with a backing band including members of JOY and Mildred Maude. After critical acclaim for his solo material (from the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Attila The Stockbroker and Glen Matlock), T.S. IDIOT returns - soundtracked by an apocalyptic background of noise."
http://tomstockley.weebly.com/ts-idiot
https://www.facebook.com/tstheidiot/
SWINE: Hard hitting two piece bass and drum punk
https://www.facebook.com/SwineUK/
https://www.instagram.com/swinebanduk/
https://soundcloud.com/swineuk
https://youtu.be/UKpzT82NBMM
DJ CACTUS COUNTY: Cactus County plays an eclectic selection of new & classic alternative music from Cardiacs to Hank Williams. He’ll almost certainly play something you’ll want to download the next day. You may be left either utterly disappointed, vaguely bewildered, and/or slightly amused but then again, that’s a bit like life isn’t it.
Doors Open: 7.30pm Admission:£6 on the Door
Tickets: £5Adv + BF from Bristol Ticket Shop, Union Street, Bristol Tel 0117 9299008 www.bristolticketshop.co.uk